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Canadian Suffragettes. Henrietta Muir Edwards was a Canadian women's rights activist and reformer.

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Henrietta Muir was born in to a wealthy Montreal family. They also published a periodical, The Working Women of Canada, which helped to bring working conditions into the public eye. This project was undertaken at their own expense, and was funded from their earnings as artists. This was a forerunner to the Y. Henrietta Edwards married Dr.

Oliver C. Edwards in and they had three children. Edwards was the government doctor for the Indian reserves. In Henrietta's husband fell ill so they returned to Ottawa ,where she took up the cause to help female prisoners, she worked with Lady Aberdeen , wife of the Governor General to establish the National Council of Women in and the [2] Victorian Order of Nurses VON in The Government of Canada selected individuals to assist in an advisory capacity about how to invoke stricter conservation measures during the latter period of the First World War, Henrietta Edwards was part of the selected committee, and it was the first time in Canadian history that a woman had been called for a review of public policy with the Government.

Henrietta wrote two books about women and the legal problems she was trying to overcome, Legal Status of Canadian Women and Legal Status of Women in Alberta She ask for their help again to fight for [3] the Persons Case in the late s, which established that Canadian women were eligible to be appointed senators and more generally, that Canadian women had the same rights as Canadian men with respect to positions of political power [4] they became known as the Famous Five.

The Canadian government commissioned her to paint a set of dishes for the Canadian exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members. Henrietta Louise Muir Edwards -